BLACKPOOL HEALTH LIBRARY: At the Heart of Quality Information on the Fylde Coast! Management Update from your Library: a collection of interesting articles focusing on leadership and management.
How to Be Organized: Taking Control and Being Productive
Time is really the only capital any human being has, and the one thing he can’t afford to waste. Thomas Edison
Do you waste much time during your day due to disorganization? Perhaps you spend five minutes searching for a misplaced file, another five looking for an email detailing an important meeting, and perhaps 10 minutes more finding today’s to-do list, lost in the piles of papers on your desk.
Before you know it, you’ve spent an hour throughout the day looking for things you can’t find. And that’s just one day! Imagine how much time you’re losing each week, each month, and each year!
Many people struggle with disorganization. And, while some think they can succeed amidst the chaos, this disorganization can end up costing a high price. Disorganization can hold us back from getting the promotion we’ve always wanted. It can block our creativity, add stress to our lives, and prevent us from being as productive and effective as we could be.
In this article we’ll look at some strategies for getting organized, so that we can start living and working to our full potential.
How to Meet a Deadline: Delivering Timely Results
Who doesn’t love a deadline? Anecdotal evidence suggests that the answer is, “Most of us, actually!”
Deadlines are the “bane” of many people’s working lives, and a source of relentless and worrying pressure. But they are important to almost any task and any role, and they are essential for the smooth running of your organization.
In this article we explore why deadlines matter, and we look at practical steps that you can take for meeting your own deadlines, and for supporting others to meet theirs.
Stakeholder Analysis: Winning Support for Your Projects
Have you ever found yourself working really hard on a project, only for it to “hit the buffers” simply because a powerful manager or influencer says “No?”
It can be extremely frustrating, particularly when you’re sure that your work would have delivered real results, if only you’d been allowed to continue… check out this article for tips on getting support for your projects.
Ethical Leadership: Doing the Right Thing
When people at the top of an organization make poor ethical choices the impact can be far reaching.
There are however many ethical leaders who do the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons. They put their ethics before the bottom line – and research shows that this makes it more likely their teams will be loyal, dedicated and ethical, in return.
In this article, we’ll explore how you can raise the bar for yourself, your team, and your organization.
How to Manage an Insecure Employee
When employees lack self-confidence, it can be hard to get them to perform at their best. So how can you help them excel at their job? What kind of coaching should you provide? What’s the best way to boost their self-esteem? And how do you deal with your own frustration around their insecure behaviour?
What to Do When Personal and Professional Commitments Compete for Your Time
You’re double booked.
It’s not just one meeting scheduled over another. It’s something for your family at odds with a work commitment. These situations can trigger guilt and stress. Guilt because you feel like you’re letting others down — no matter what you decide, you will lose. And stress because you can’t literally be in two places at once.
“As a time management coach, I help working parents navigate these challenges on a daily basis. I’ve found that there are two different components that you must address to minimize both guilt and stress”. Find out more in this article.
When Solving Problems, Think About What You Could Do, Not What You Should Do
It will help you generate more creative solutions… read this article to find out more!
5 Behaviours of Leaders Who Embrace Change
Learn how to encourage your employees to take risks and experiment.
The Right Way to Respond to Negative Feedback
Feedback, as they say, is a gift. Research bears this out, suggesting that it’s a key driver of performance and leadership effectiveness. Negative feedback in particular can be valuable because it allows us to monitor our performance and alerts us to important changes we need to make. And indeed, leaders who ask for critical feedback are seen as more effective by superiors, employees, and peers, while those who seek primarily positive feedback are rated lower in effectiveness.
But processing and acting on negative feedback is not always easy. It can make us defensive, angry, and self-conscious, which subsequently impairs our effectiveness. What’s more, we can’t take all feedback we receive at face value. While critical feedback can frequently be given objectively and with the purest of motives, it can also be inaccurate and/or nefarious in nature: a co-worker who wants to throw us off our game; a boss who has completely unachievable expectations; an employee who is scared to speak truth to power; a friend who projects her own issues onto us. It’s hard to know what is real and what should be filtered out…
How to Be Happy: the GREAT DREAM Model: Practical Steps Toward a Happier Life
For many people, finding happiness is almost an obsession. Whether we’re reading self-help books, learning to meditate, or installing play equipment in our workplaces, our quest to be happy seems to take up more and more of our time and energy.
But what does happiness really consist of? And how do you get there? According to the GREAT DREAM model, happiness is really quite simple. It suggests that we can focus on a few key areas to enrich our lives and make them more rewarding.
In this article, we explore the 10 elements that make up the model, and explain how you can use it to bring more happiness to your own life.
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